Site search added

This weekend I added site search to TeXample.net. You will now find a search box at the top right corner of every page. The site search is powered by the Google Custom Search Engine. The styling of the search box and search results may need some more tweaking, but the search engine works quite well.

I can’t afford to pay for the ad-free version of Google custom search (hosting my web sites is already costing me a considerable amount of money), so expect to find ads in the search results. The free version is not indexed as often as the premium service, but my experience is that new content on TeXample.net is picked up quickly by Google.

I hope that users of this site will find the site search useful. For those who are looking for a site search feature I highly recommend trying Google site search. It is customizable and flexible, and relatively easy to deploy. It relies on javascript for displaying search results on your site. Some may not like this. At least it degrades gracefully and shows a link where you can find the search results for users that have disabled javascript (I borrowed this code from docs.djangoproject.com).